As AllAfrica.com reported: Robert Mugabe said Friday that whites who are still in the country should go back to England as he vowed that those removed from land redistributed to black Zimbabweans would never be allowed to return. “Don’t they (whites) know where their ancestors came from? The British who are here should all…
by Nuruddeen M. Abdallah States’ foreign debts . Lagos, Bauchi, Kaduna top debtors’ list Lagos, Bauchi and Kaduna are the biggest foreign debtors among the 36 states in the country, according to official data analysed by Daily Trust. Records posted on the Debt Management Office (DMO) website shows that the foreign debt stock of…
LONDON — Shaken by polls showing momentum shifting toward independence for Scotland, the British government will offer proposals for greater political and fiscal autonomy for the Scots if they vote to remain within the United Kingdom in a referendum on Sept. 18, George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said on Sunday. The narrowing polls…
Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, weekend, submitted that it would be illogical to refer the report of the just-concluded national conference to the National Assembly for clause by clause consideration. The former National Chairman of People Democratic Party, PDP, noted that issue of referendum or taking confab report to National Assembly should have been…
More stunning revelations on the relationship among Boko Haram, the government and the Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, may be unveiled by the sect’s leadership this week. The move, according to a source close to the sect, is to put the record straight and clear the air on several controversial issues contained in the interview…
Yola— Anxiety, panic gripped residents of Mubi, the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State, yesterday, as news spread that Boko Haram insurgents were closing in on the town. This came as the military vowed that the onslaught to checkmate activities of the terrorists will not stop until they are completely wiped out.The military has also…
Parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls are alleging grand conspiracy in the abduction of their daughters by the Boko Haram terrorists, even as they accused some top staff members of the school of having a prior knowledge of the kidnap. According to one of the parents of the girls, Bulama Jonah, some top staffers of…
Nigeria will export about 1.83 million bpd of crude oil in October, down from 1.94 million bpd exported in September, a drop of about 6 per cent over a period of one month, export data LEADERSHIP sourced from Platt Energy Markets, an international news agency, have shown. By current loading schedules, traders said some Angolan…
Some serving and retired military generals have thrown their weight behind the Department of State Services (DSS) which cleared former chief of army staff, Lt. General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd) of alleged funding of the Boko Haram terrorists. They described the allegation as one of the diversionary tactics of the gang and vowed to end…
A former Minister of Petroleum, Prof Tam David-West,